IF POLITICAL SPEECH IS RENDERED CALCULABLE THEN WHAT? what happens if public int

IF POLITICAL SPEECH IS RENDERED CALCULABLE THEN WHAT?

what happens if public intellectuals can only construct commons instead of power?

I mean. Seriously. You aren’t going to stop people from wanting to organize to change the world. You aren’t going to stop people from changing it to suit their biases, interests, class and kin. You can stop them from lying – or at least make it much harder for them to lie. You can limit them to construction of commons, and exchanges between groups. You can try hard to limit the obscurantism that they rely upon do achieve discounts (lying again). But they will keep on being human (gossiping).

I think it’s pretty hard to engage in corruption under a Propertarian constitution. But it isn’t impossible. Man will always invent new means of lying to obtain discounts.

On the other hand, I think that since the only outlet that is economically inexpensive to follow is that of voluntary exchange, then I can see most efforts returning to civic rather than political life: that we try to construct truths and commons and trades rather than lies, and rents, and thefts.

This is what prohibiting lying does for us. This is what Propertarianism allows us to do.